Your Voice, Your Choice
Updated: January 10, 2023
Your Voice, Your Choice: Parks & Streets is a participatory budgeting initiative in which Seattle residents decide how to spend a portion of the City's budget on small-scale park and street improvements. This program is a partnership between the Department of Neighborhoods (DON), Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT), and Seattle Parks and Recreation (SPR).
DON leads the program, collects ideas, evaluates submittals, and hosts the voting process. Once votes are tallied, and projects awarded, SPR funds and implements the park improvement projects and SDOT funds and implements the small-scale street improvement projects.
You can learn more about DON's role on the DON Your Voice, Your Choice program webpage. SDOT's project implementation webpage will host all project updates (including SPR projects), selectable by Council District, for tracking the status of the winning projects. The status of SPR projects can also be followed from this webpage.
Projects
2019 Your Voice, Your Choice Projects
In 2019 Seattle Parks and Recreation initiated eleven projects which were part of the Your Voice, Your Choice program.
- Beacon Hill Playfield Basketball Court - Improvements to basketball courts. Complete
- Delridge Community Center - Install new benches next to basketball court. Complete
- Dr. Jose Rizal Park - Staircase to be replaced connecting upper bench area to orchard. Complete
- Hing Hay Park - Maintenance projects including kiosk and pavilion repair, painting, and
handrail installation are complete. And beautiful marble stools have replaced the vandalized ones which were installed 40 years ago and represent the friendship between the United States and Taiwan. Also, SPR partnered with a community group to install new electric lights in the ceiling of the pavilion. Complete
- Judkins Park Improvements - Bench and path repair around the skatepark. Complete
- Lincoln Park - Add benches throughout the park. Complete
- Oxbow Park - Safety improvements including improved lighting. Complete
- Puget Boulevard Commons Park (aka Cottage Grove Playground) - Play equipment refurbishment. Complete
Thank you to everyone who attended the public meeting on Monday, December 2 to learn about the project and offer input.
Here are documents from the meeting. View coverage of the meeting in this West Seattle Blog article.
Meeting Poster 12/2/2019
Meeting Agenda 12/2/2019
Meeting Presentation 12/2/2019 - Roxhill Park - Bridge repair over wetlands. Complete
View Roxhill Park bridge construction photos here - Salmon Bay Park Benches - Add benches to west side of park. Complete
- Seward Park - Trail and ADA improvements - Complete
Previous Your Voice, Your Choice Projects
- Cayton Corner Park - Added new sidewalk for tree protection. Complete
- Judkins Park Dearborn Entrance Project - Restore and enhance entry to park. Complete